Bootstrapping Language Description [Elektronisk resurs] The case of Mpiemo (Bantu A, Central African Republic)

• Linguists have long been producing grammatical decriptions of yet undescribed languages. This is a time-consuming process, which has already adapted to improved technology for recording and storage. We present here a novel application of NLP techniques to bootstrap analysis of collected data and speed-up manual selection work. To be more precise, we argue that unsupervised induction of morphology and part-of-speech analysis from raw text data is mature enough to produce useful results. Experiments with Latent Semantic Analysis were less fruitful. We exemplify this on Mpiemo, a so-far essentially undescribed Bantu language of the Central African Republic, for which raw text data was available. 

Ämnesord

Humanities and the Arts  (hsv)

Languages and Literature  (hsv)

Specific Languages  (hsv)

Humaniora och konst  (hsv)

Språk och litteratur  (hsv)

Studier av enskilda språk  (hsv)

Natural Sciences  (hsv)

Computer and Information Sciences  (hsv)

Language Technology (Computational Linguistics)  (hsv)

Naturvetenskap  (hsv)

Data- och informationsvetenskap  (hsv)

Språkteknologi (språkvetenskaplig databehandling)  (hsv)

HUMANITIES and RELIGION  (svep)

Languages and linguistics  (svep)

Other languages  (svep)

African languages  (svep)

HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP  (svep)

Språkvetenskap  (svep)

Övriga språk  (svep)

Afrikanska språk  (svep)

HUMANITIES and RELIGION  (svep)

Languages and linguistics  (svep)

Linguistic subjects  (svep)

Computational linguistics  (svep)

HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP  (svep)

Språkvetenskap  (svep)

Lingvistikämnen  (svep)

Datorlingvistik  (svep)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Mpiemo

Bantu A

Central African Republic

NLP

Latent Semantic Analysis

bootstrapping